NAOMI KLEIN’S SCAPEGOAT (February 26, 2015)

Naomi Klein is in the news. Her last book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014), is grabbing headlines. But she is barking up a wrong tree. Capitalism is the system that best suits humans at this stage of evolution. It was not invented by capitalists, either. Besides, there are few humans who would not wish to be capitalists, if they only could. Most important, replacing capitalism with socialism or even communism would change nothing in terms of climate change. There are too many humans on earth, and that is the main problem we are facing at present. In short, capitalism is but the proverbial scapegoat for Klein. Not that I am defending capitalism, I hasten to add. It only reflects the human nature at this stage of evolution. Sadly, it reflects it all too well.